One wouldn’t
think that heavily trafficked, four-lane Flatbush Avenue would
be fertile ground for a farm, but two restaurateurs saw the avenue’s
potential. In July, Jason Scandinaro and Damon Gorton turned
the former 2,400-square-foot Bistro St. Mark’s space into Flatbush
Farm. They started with a bar, and then waited until September
- when they hired chef Eric Lind to man the kitchen - to begin
serving meals. Comment.

As New Year’s Eve approaches, Park Slope
author Kevin Shay reminds us that during a more innocent time
- a time before 9-11 - some folks feared a catastrophic breakdown
of civilization on Dec. 31, 1999. Comment.

The name of the chef of Lunetta restaurant was misspelled in
"Northern Exposure" (Dec. 9, 2006), "Brooklyn
Bites" (Nov. 4, 2006) and "A Decade of Good Eats"
(Sept. 30, 2006). The correct spelling is Adam Shepard. We regret
the errors. Comment.

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The tally of charges is now up to four against Club Shadows, the embattled Third Avenue nightspot whose future increasingly appears in doubt, according to City Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge). Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Resignation — a little bitter, but mostly cynical — swept through Freddy’s Bar in Prospect Heights, the drinking hole of choice for anti-Atlantic Yards activists, who saw their last, best hopes dashed by Wednesday’s Public Authorities Control Board approval of the mega-project. Comment.

You’d be forgiven for thinking you were in a different century — say, the first one — what with the live sheep, the shepherds, a woman named Mary gazing lovingly at her baby Jesus in a hay-filled bassinet. Comment.

Many of our readers got brand new iPods and Playstations this Chrismukkah season — and if one Brooklyn lawmaker has his way, they’ll soon get to hand back their old ones to the companies that made them. Comment.

An underground cloud of toxins that has already invaded the future home of the Whole Foods supermarket, is moving from the industrial neighborhood along the Gowanus Canal toward Park Slope, an engineer told state officials this month. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner: He’s won the right to build his $4-billion arena, hotel, office space and residential Xanadu — and he’s gotten his pals in Albany to underwrite it with billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Nice work if you have the connections to get it. Comment.

Ninth Street has become Park Slope’s de facto “Rue de la Patisserie” thanks to three French-style bakeries opening up recently — but now the strip is earning another name: “Rue du Divorce Acerbe.” Comment.

Brooklyn’s raccoons now have their very own Cruella De Vils: City Councilmen Vincent Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) and Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island), who have sponsored a bill that would require the city to remove the masked critters, whether they’re rabid or not. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom thinks that slumber parties for children under the age of 35 should be banned. Why would any parent want to sacrifice his or her sleep and sanity for an all-night gathering of pre-teen girls? Comment.